May 2012
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Thursday Boxing
If they don’t get the AC fixed in my gym I am going to go crazy on their face. Seriously. Although…the advantages to Bikram Boxing is that you sweat so much I have to be losing some water weight right? Anyway….
I forgot my sponge to put in my hand wraps per the experiment. Next week!
Boxing was the usual with a harder than usual warm up - lots of running stairs, bear crawling,...
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OMFG
The name of this blog is NoSauce - because I don’t ever eat sauce. No salad dressing, no condiments, nothing on pasta, yes I know this makes me a total freak, but I can’t eat it. Its a texture thing, and yes I have been this way my entire life, and no I never had a traumatic “sauce incident” that made me this way. Even my bestie in her MOH speech at my wedding while...
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The End of an Era
Today was MFT’s last class teaching at my gym. I being the ultimate stalker, will now drag myself at 6:30am on Tuesday’s allllllll the way to the east side, to take that class. Hopefully he won’t give that one up too, and only teach in Queens!
Since it was his last class, he wanted to go out with a bang, so he decided to do his best to kill us. Or at least make us throw up.
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Working out with no music...
My fit today at work went later than expected, so I was going to miss spin - which totally blows because I left my ipod charging at home….so what kind of workout could I do without an ipod? I “racked” (seewhatididthere) my brain. Running was out, as I would never make 5 miles with no music while indoors on a treadmill. There were no classes to take because of the timing of my...
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operation--fat--loss-deactivate asked: Hello! I was sent over to you by Sarah from abitofsilliness since I was looking for some advice/opinions on kettlebells and she said you are a fan! I'm currently trying to lose weight/get healthy/fit/strong etc and I'm thinking of buying my own, I just wondered if you thought it would be a good investment? :)
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Things
THE GOOD
Heading out to the Hampton’s today! Bathing suit, booze, friends, ridiculousness guaranteed to ensue - check.
When I put on my freshly washed and dried jeans this morning they were slightly easier to wiggle into. Is it possible running 18 miles in 3 days did this? Or bootcamp? Or bruised hand boxing? Whatever, I’ll take it!
It FINALLY stopped raining
Taking the day off...
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Boxing Hand Matience
So every week I post about boxing, and also post about how I jacked up my hand. Today I had our Coach wrap my hands for me, so I could learn how to do it better. Unfortunately, today was not an exception. Once again slightly swollen and bruised knuckles.
(no I don’t wear my ring under my gloves, this photo was after class.
So I talked to the coach about agirlintransitions suggestions...
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Wednesday Morning Sports Conditioning
MFT made the announcement today that he is only teaching two more classes after today, then officially out of my gym. WHAT AM I GOING TO DO? AHHHH!!!!!! Pretty much sucks, because none of the other trainers are as hard as he is, so whoever replaces him, even if they are good, won’t be as good, you know?
Anyway the workout:
Warm up: the typical warm up - running, laterally shuffling,...
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Mindless Running
I haven’t run so often in ages - but this week it’s like I am married to the treadmill.
I have a lot on my mind lately and running is amazing for thinking. You don’t have to focus on form (once you have it down, which I learned ages ago) like you do when you are lifting, you don’t have to count reps, or sets, you don’t have to watch the clock. You just get on, run,...
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Ran 5.75 miles on my lunch break today
In 56:00 minutes! WOO!!!!
My neck felt soooo loose and good after - and now I can feel it clenching. Ugh. It’s killing. I should have known better than to run so far, but it felt so good when I was doing it - like totally normal!
At least I got my workout in. It’s Monday - go out there and get it done!
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Monday Check In
Obsessing Over: Not moving my neck. I slept so weirdly that I can’t turn my head! I am convinced I pinched a nerve or something. Hoping that going to spin at lunch will loosen this situation up!
above photo: what my neck feels like…..
Working On: Stretching my neck. Work emails. Stuffing newspaper in my shoes so they dry from the rain more quickly (good trick to note peeps - the...
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agirlstransformation asked: For the burn between your pinkie and ring ringer, I'd suggest taping it with some hockey or sports tape. I know it sounds silly, but that's what I do to prevent blisters on my feet from skates and ripped skin on my hands when rock climbing. Plus it's soft enough that it does really cut you. After, try rubbing some vaseline on the area to keep it from drying out.
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Weekend in Review
OMG THE WEATHER! THE WEATHER! It’s like California! 80 degrees and not humid at all! I am loving it!
Friday - Took the day off from the gym, and B and I went to dinner with H and her boyfriend J at Nobu. I am the only Californian that doesn’t like sushi, however there is a ton of other delicious items on the menu, and it was a blast. After we went to Smith and Mills for a quick...
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Thursday Boxing
Shea woke me up at 4am this morning wanting to play - tried as I might to go back to sleep, I kept waking up every 20 or so minutes after that. So getting out of bed at 5:45am for boxing wasn’t as difficult as it normally is because I was basically already up.
Boxing was it’s usual hard self - except that it was PACKED. I don’t know if the word is out that this is a great class,...
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Wednesday Morning Sports Conditioning
I have been so busy today that I sort of feel almost like I did this workout yesterday. I did make it to Bootcamp bright and early today - despite the horrid rain this morning. Hot weather with rain is the worst. Gross.
Warm up was the usual: Booty kicks, running, shuffling laterally, high knees, quick feet, centipedes, push ups, push ups crawling laterally, body builders, squats, squat hops,...
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“To young girls everywhere, it’s sad that our bodies go in and out of style, just...”
– Tyra Banks Open Letter To Models: Vogue To Images of Anorexia - The Daily Beast (via taylorlorenz)
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Tuesday Spin
In continuing my effort to blow out cardio this week since I have been feeling a bit puffy, I went to spin today at lunch.
The only bike left when I walked in the room was the one all by itself in the front row - ahead of the regular first row, right next to the instructor. So there I was, basically leading the pack.
It was incredible motivation, I knew if I slacked everyone in the class would...
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5.28 miles ran on my lunch break today
Monday you aren’t that bad.
(612 calories burned!)
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Weekend in Review
Friday - Friday night went to Sushi Samba in the village to celebrate D and R’s engagement. From there to the Blind Tiger to have some beers and play liar’s poker.
Saturday - Shea woke me up early demanding a trip to the dog park - literally as soon as we went downstairs started dragging me in that direction.
From there, some laundry and an attempt to watch Tree of Life with Brad...
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Friday Spin
Even though my body is beat up from a week of pounding, I dragged myself to spin today.
I’m not sure - I’m just tired. My muscles are tired from me putting them through the ringer all week. But whatever, we are going to Sushi Samba with friends tonight, and I plan on eating tempura everything so I needed to get my burn in.
*(if you are keeping track, I have had 3.5 days of kick ass...
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Thursday Advanced Bootcamp
Due to Shea’s sickness yesterday I missed boxing - so I decided to take a class that I never had before “intermediate to advanced bootcamp”. Some of my coworkers have taken it and said it was great so I thought I would check it out.
It was a very different format than MFT’s set up. Flex the teacher was in the army, so it has a very drill like feel to it.
Warm up: shuffle...
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“I think same sex couples should be able to get married.”
– Barack Obama (via newsweek)
Me too POTUS. Me too.
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Wednesday Morning Sports Conditioning
Hard to get up this morning since the show didn’t end till after 11pm last night - but I did it and dragged myself to Bootcamp!
MFT was his usual extremely tough self - why I ever think it will be easier is beyond me. It’s always so difficult that every inch of muscle on my body is always screaming. Today was no different.
Warm Up:
15 minutes of the usual: centipedes, running,...
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WatchThe Beach Boys - Good Vibrations Live May 8th, 2012
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500 Swings Done!
Went to the gym today with the intention of doing the stair treadmill thing - which was full. Annoying. I was feeling a little puffy, and wanted to do some cardio to sweat the bloat out.
However, the people on the machines seemed to have no intention of getting off soon, so I resigned myself to doing swings. I was feeling sort of low energy and unfocused, so I wanted mindless cardio. I...
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So this happened.
Taking the dog on a walk and had a healthy snack of a few cashews in one hand and and then few dog treats in the other. Guess which hand I brought to my mouth with the snack? Hint: Not the cashews. Really.
I don’t know if I have ever seen B laugh that hard.
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Smart Decisions
What to eat…ah. Always a tough question.
This weekend I ate crappy delicious food all weekend. Whatever I wanted whenever I wanted. I wrestle with this because part of me doesn’t feel guilty since I work out so much, the other half is frustrated as I won’t look the way I want, even with the working out, unless I change what I eat.
So today I took a stand against my willpower....
